The phone screen was super easy. I think it involved a hashmap, but it was a month ago so I don't remember. Just get their tests to pass.

I think there were four stages to the question. You solve one part, and then the interviewer adds more constraints or something. Once you get to the comparator part, it's the last part. So, if you get that to pass, you will get an onsite interview.

I was invited on-site after the phone screen.

I was in the afternoon group, so my day started with a catered lunch with new hires and other candidates.

It's kind of interesting that they make you code on your computer in your own IDE of choosing during the interview. It's not a bad thing, just not something I'm used to since no company has ever made me do that.

It's not a very fair process when they have been using the same exact questions for years. Anyone could show the code to their friends who may be interviewing since it's saved on your laptop after the interview. Stripe should really fix that problem.

I had a coding interview, which was easy. Next, I had a behavioral interview with a manager, also easy. Next, I had an HTTP request interview, which was hard considering I'm not very familiar with requests and practicing them on my own was difficult. The last interview was debugging a large codebase. There's no way to really prepare for this.

Their interview process isn't super difficult if you're ready for the type of questions they're going to ask. I specifically was not prepared for HTTP requests, even though I studied them. However, the process is very different from other unicorns/big tech companies.

Everyone there is really nice, and I would consider working here in the future.

They have been using the same questions for everyone for at least the last 1.5 years. One of my interviewers told me he had to debug the same bugs in a repository during his interview, which was over a year ago.

This is not a fair process, especially when some people have friends who could tell them the questions. The code for all interviews is saved to your laptop after the interview, since they make you use your own laptop during the interview.

Get familiar with JSON parsing for HTTP requests, specifically look into GSON if using Java.